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I have no inside knowledge but I imagine that once you have mapped out a city and can safely drive without a driver (we're clearly not there yet), maybe subsequ

I have no inside knowledge but I imagine that once you have mapped out a city and can safely drive without a driver (we're clearly not there yet), maybe subsequent map updates can be done by self-driving cars? Do cities offer a convenient API to access certain events like construction and so on? Do cities even have a centralized location to keep track of these things that someone out in the field can update in near real-time? With all these competing self-driving technology, it seems like we can avoid some duplication of effort? Even as I type this I'm wary because there first thing everybody will probably think is "who will pay for this"... I think the city government should pay but they might balk at the commitment. Thoughts?

Iv 10y ago
> Do cities offer a convenient API to access certain events like construction and so on? As someone who worked a bit on the smartcity effort, let me answer : Bwahahaha! No. Not even close. Actually I wonder if you dressed up as city workers and started drilling holes in the pavement, how long it would take for anyone to figure you are not supposed to do that. Yes, I wish cities had a budget to do GIS right and have an open API for finding things like map of pipes, of streets, of construction work schedule, etc... The effort to make that happen is called Open Data. Recently commendable improvements have been made, but we are not there yet.